Hi needsomecash,
Could you help to confirm on Ch 5, Ch 8 & Ch U, when the Chinese subtitle is turned on, is all the Chinese characters displayed correctly? Thanks.
Edit: Ch 5 should also have separate Chinese subtitles. Btw, I do not have any DVB-T2 receivers, I am not able to confirm if it exist, by right it should be there.
I don't watch tv programmes but your questions raised some interesting observations.
With my Draco stb, while in T2 Chan U, pressing the
subtitle button on the remote resulted in
No Data message being shown on the screen. This message appeared even when subtitles, sometimes in both English and Chinese were being shown. The conclusion was that subtitles came embedded and there was no subtitle stream.
On Chan 8 HD, for subtitles, there were choices of English, Chinese and None. Regardless of my choice, the Chinese version appeared. So again the subtitle seemed to be in the video stream. There were subtitle streams but the content is blank.
For T2 Chan 5 HD, with the locally produced
Point of Entry , there were subtitle options for English, Chinese and Malay (can't recall if there was an option for None). Choosing Chinese or Malay produced the corresponding subtitle while choice of English showed no subtitle.
So it looks like even though multiple language subtitle stream is provided for in the standard, whether you get it or not depends on the broadcaster. Of course, there is still the possibility of stb software bugs, as noted by you. Hopefully this can be ruled out by users of other T2 receivers.
Edit: For T2 5HD, there is also an option of None for subtitle. Actual availability of subtitle depends on source.